Career
He was the Training and Project Development Officer of Consortium of Bangsamoro Civil Society, the largest civil society organization (CSO) composed of Moro non-governmental organizations (Non-governmental organizations) and people"s organizations (POs) from 2007 to 2010. He was a president of Kaakbay Tri-People Youth Dialogue, a non-stock, non-profit, non-government cross-sectoral youth organization. and executive director of Kabataang Mindanao Para sa Kapayapaan (KAMINKAP) or Mindanao Youth for Peace, a local youth-oriented non-governmental organization that focused on the propagation of the Culture of Peace. He was also a consultant to Catholic Relief Services in Mindanao.
Pangcoga is an ethnic Maranao, one of the several multilingual ethnic groups comprising the Moro people, the largest mainly non-Christian group in the Philippines.